A portrait of Berlin based taxidriver Theo, told through episodes with five different passengers during a nightshift, which turns out differently than all the others.
Being a taxi driver in Berlin requires Theo to be a lot of things: Service provider, listener, city guide, and entertainer. In five exemplary episodes this film tells a bizarrely tragic and hilarious story of his customers during his night shifts, and how Theo recovers a long missing piece of magic in his life.—anonymous
Theo, 42, is divorced and has wearingly been working as a taxi driver in Berlin for one year. Every evening before his nightshift starts, he kisses his son Julian goodnight - on the phone because he lives hundreds kilometers away with his mother. And so his nightly routine starts once again: Waiting, driving, small talk... the usual. While Theo continues to chase his dreams on the dirty roads, every night becomes the same. But sometimes - almost never - something is different. Hardly any customers leave more than the fare or a forgotten handbag. Until this long forgotten melancholic magic reappears and he suddenly finds himself driving on a new path. A portrait of a nomad, a drifter, of a desperate searcher of his dreams. With his funny, tragic or bizarre costumers we discover one night in Berlin....—Nils Strüven